Friday, October 19, 2012

I had an odd idea on turn based action
and wanted to see what others may think of it. In case you do not
know what turn based action is, let me explain.

Turn based action is where all active
members of the game have a set turn when they can an action like an
attack. Anyone that has played a table top game will be familiar with
this. From D&D to Monopoly all players have a “turn”, it's a
simple game mechanic. The problem with it is, is that this is when a
game can slow down for the other players. This is specially true when
you have a player that is not paying attention.

So my odd idea is a simple change of
the turn based action from being a “take your turn now” to “your
action is due now”. So in something like the Red Ash World Engine
(or any role playing game) instead of having a turn for the player to
figure out what to do and to go on, they need to be ready to perform
their action. If they are not ready then they get skipped until their
next turn. While other players or NPCs are taking their turn a player
can figure out what their next action will be and ideally speed up
the combat. In play I think this would make for a more intense
combat.

So has anyone tried this? If so what
was your experience with it? And what do I call it...?

Friday, October 12, 2012

....became the dog days of early autumn. This is just a quick note to let everyone know I am still working on Red Ash. I just took a bit of time off to play some games and decompress from the same old; work, eat, sleep cycle.

Now I will need to get back to hammering my keyboard and try to finish this first Red Ash RPG Module.